BOEKS 17
New Surface Research — Henri Jacobs
Book presentation
Thursday, 20.03.2025, 18.30-22.00
with a conversation between Henri Jacobs and Kasper Andreasen at 19:30
BOEKS corridor
and the presentation of a collective woven work by textile and illustration students
Kunstenbibliotheek Cellarium
and exbibition
Until 16.05.2025
—
New Surface Research is a new artist's book by Henri Jacobs. In September 2013, Roma Publications in Amsterdam published his Journal Drawings. The book is a record of 9 years of drawing and collecting reference images. In November 2024, the sequel New Surface Research is released. This archive contains another 10 year record of paper weaving. The idea behind it is the study of a surface’s two-dimensionality: its woven appearance and flatness, as well as the recto-verso of the paper surface, reproduced in book form. Old and new works or figurative and geometric images are woven together into a two-sided 2D surface that is image, pattern, texture and structure in one.
In the BOEKS corridor, this search translates into an architectural intervention where there will be a sequence of eight braids with fronts and backs at the centre. On the occasion of the opening, Jacobs will talk to artist, teacher and friend Kasper Andreasen about this spatial book form and the correspondence they had for the book's text.
There will also be a return to the wickerwork project week organised earlier this year under the guidance of Henri Jacobs and the textile and illustration teachers. Afterwards, the idea arose to come up with one new, collective wickerwork with the textile and illustration students over a period of weeks, literally hooking into each other's contribution. They then worked together to find a way to both present it ‘openly’ in the Cellarium and to see it folded together in one movement as a book object that will become part of the Kunstenbibliotheek’s collection.
Colophon
New Surface Research
Henri Jacobs
Publisher: Roma Publications 477
Text: Kasper Andreasen & Henri Jacobs
Design: Yuri Sato & Roger Willems
Copy editing: Nina Woodson
Size: 21 x 29,7 cm
Edition: 800
Price: €45
This book has been made possible with financial support from the Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam, and the Flemish authorities, Brussels. The book is available for viewing and purchase at the Kunstenbibliotheek counter or online via Roma Publications.
Collective woven work
A joint woven artwork by the students of textile & illustration on the occasion of the project week with the following participants: Masha Argutyan, Lori Collier, Alex da Silva Rodrigues, Rachel De Geyter, Soumeya El Boukhzani, Reiho Preem, Lenke Tauber, Méraud Verschuere, Erin Vyvey, Gabriella Amir, Julia Butter, Joppe Carael, Vero Denecker, Evelien Dignef, Norien Ewane, Richelle Maus, Klaudia Mytkowska, Indira Pinto Santana, Julie Tymoshenko, Anna Van der Vurst, Paulien Van Loo, Lex Verslijcke, Fanny Schoofs, Liza De Weerdt, Ynne De Wever, Leen Goossens, Nienke Leijssenaar, Paulo Cesar Lopes Sousa, Leonie Verbeeck, Evelyne Schoofs, Nell Vandenberghe, Jill Van Hecke, Mirre Willeghems, Billie Vermandere, Luka Godts, Minske Heynen, Lila van der Heiden, Lore De Schutter, Kyra Voordeckers, Irene Raeymaekers, Mina Huybrechts, Joke Van Hoyweghen, Pascale Valcke, Maria Piermattei, Irene Jans, Febe Lequeue, Martha Battistella & Kaat Deceuninck.
Design poster & book object: Lore De Schutter, Richelle Maus & Ynne De Wever
Thanks to the mentoring teachers: Elsje Dezwarte, Tim Van den Abeele, Joanna Reuse, Diane Steverlynck, Anita Kars & Katrien Soeffers.
The book object is displayed in the Kunstenbibliotheek’s Cellarium. After the presentation, it will be added to their artist book collection and can be viewed on request.
(29.02.2024)
Weaving is essentially two-sided and a page in a book has also two sides. That makes a book an ideal format for showing these works.
One property of a woven paper is its tactility, it has a relief, and the other is its two-sidedness. The front and the back are equally important because two sides are in relief and have an image.
(10.04.2024)
One has to break apart existing images to make new ones.
(25.04.2024)
If we look at what happens in such a treatment to the original geometric figures drawn in black ink, for example, an equilateral triangle crossed with a square or a circle, the ‘mating’ of the two figures seems like a kind of Darwinian evolution that produces a new bastardized image.
BOEKS 17
New Surface Research — Henri Jacobs
Book presentation
Thursday, 20.03.2025, 18.30-22.00
with a conversation between Henri Jacobs and Kasper Andreasen at 19:30
BOEKS corridor
and the presentation of a collective woven work by textile and illustration students
Kunstenbibliotheek Cellarium
and exbibition
Until 16.05.2025
—
New Surface Research is a new artist's book by Henri Jacobs. In September 2013, Roma Publications in Amsterdam published his Journal Drawings. The book is a record of 9 years of drawing and collecting reference images. In November 2024, the sequel New Surface Research is released. This archive contains another 10 year record of paper weaving. The idea behind it is the study of a surface’s two-dimensionality: its woven appearance and flatness, as well as the recto-verso of the paper surface, reproduced in book form. Old and new works or figurative and geometric images are woven together into a two-sided 2D surface that is image, pattern, texture and structure in one.
In the BOEKS corridor, this search translates into an architectural intervention where there will be a sequence of eight braids with fronts and backs at the centre. On the occasion of the opening, Jacobs will talk to artist, teacher and friend Kasper Andreasen about this spatial book form and the correspondence they had for the book's text.
There will also be a return to the wickerwork project week organised earlier this year under the guidance of Henri Jacobs and the textile and illustration teachers. Afterwards, the idea arose to come up with one new, collective wickerwork with the textile and illustration students over a period of weeks, literally hooking into each other's contribution. They then worked together to find a way to both present it ‘openly’ in the Cellarium and to see it folded together in one movement as a book object that will become part of the Kunstenbibliotheek’s collection.
Colophon
New Surface Research
Henri Jacobs
Publisher: Roma Publications 477
Text: Kasper Andreasen & Henri Jacobs
Design: Yuri Sato & Roger Willems
Copy editing: Nina Woodson
Size: 21 x 29,7 cm
Edition: 800
Price: €45
This book has been made possible with financial support from the Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam, and the Flemish authorities, Brussels. The book is available for viewing and purchase at the Kunstenbibliotheek counter or online via Roma Publications.
Collective woven work
A joint woven artwork by the students of textile & illustration on the occasion of the project week with the following participants: Masha Argutyan, Lori Collier, Alex da Silva Rodrigues, Rachel De Geyter, Soumeya El Boukhzani, Reiho Preem, Lenke Tauber, Méraud Verschuere, Erin Vyvey, Gabriella Amir, Julia Butter, Joppe Carael, Vero Denecker, Evelien Dignef, Norien Ewane, Richelle Maus, Klaudia Mytkowska, Indira Pinto Santana, Julie Tymoshenko, Anna Van der Vurst, Paulien Van Loo, Lex Verslijcke, Fanny Schoofs, Liza De Weerdt, Ynne De Wever, Leen Goossens, Nienke Leijssenaar, Paulo Cesar Lopes Sousa, Leonie Verbeeck, Evelyne Schoofs, Nell Vandenberghe, Jill Van Hecke, Mirre Willeghems, Billie Vermandere, Luka Godts, Minske Heynen, Lila van der Heiden, Lore De Schutter, Kyra Voordeckers, Irene Raeymaekers, Mina Huybrechts, Joke Van Hoyweghen, Pascale Valcke, Maria Piermattei, Irene Jans, Febe Lequeue, Martha Battistella & Kaat Deceuninck.
Design poster & book object: Lore De Schutter, Richelle Maus & Ynne De Wever
Thanks to the mentoring teachers: Elsje Dezwarte, Tim Van den Abeele, Joanna Reuse, Diane Steverlynck, Anita Kars & Katrien Soeffers.
The book object is displayed in the Kunstenbibliotheek’s Cellarium. After the presentation, it will be added to their artist book collection and can be viewed on request.
(29.02.2024)
Weaving is essentially two-sided and a page in a book has also two sides. That makes a book an ideal format for showing these works.
One property of a woven paper is its tactility, it has a relief, and the other is its two-sidedness. The front and the back are equally important because two sides are in relief and have an image.
(10.04.2024)
One has to break apart existing images to make new ones.
(25.04.2024)
If we look at what happens in such a treatment to the original geometric figures drawn in black ink, for example, an equilateral triangle crossed with a square or a circle, the ‘mating’ of the two figures seems like a kind of Darwinian evolution that produces a new bastardized image.
